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Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.

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Plastic has made a comeback thanks to Covid-19. Photo: Edward Howell/Unsplash

5 polluters making the pandemic pay

As Covid-19 spread across the world, greenhouse-gas emissions plummeted, thanks to a reduction in human activity. But meanwhile, writes Amy Hall, some of the world’s most polluting companies and industries have been using the pandemic to maintain and even ramp up their environmentally ruinous activities.

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A man sells ice cream from an Ola cart in Bloubergstrand, South Africa. Ola is owned by Unilever. Rather than giving transnational corporations more power, a Global Green New Deal could be partly financed through climate reparations. Photo: Louis Smit/Unsplash

Green and just

How to finance a Green New Deal that is truly global? Fadhel Kaboub has a proposal that builds in colonial and climate reparations.

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Coronaman: Delhi Police get creative with this cut-out poster warning residents to stay at home – a tough ask for daily wage earners. Photo: Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto/PA Images

Beyond borders

Can we rescue the notion of global health from the jaws of the pandemic? asks Dinyar Godrej.

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Action and Information

Action and Information

Covid-19 related research and advocacy groups to support.

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Young Rio favela residents, part of the grassroots Marcha das Favelas group, organize mutual aid to make up for the absence of the Brazilian state in tackling the crisis. Photo: Ellan Lustosa / Zuma / Alamy

Lessons from the pandemic

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

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Spotlight: James Aguer Garang

James Aguer Garang talks to Jan-Peter Westad about art, trauma and healing.

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Mixed Media: Music

Mixed Media: Music

De-formation: Piano Variations; From Isolation 3

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Mixed Media: Film

Mixed Media: Film

The Uncertain Kingdom; The Australian Dream; The Happy Family; Bicycle Thieves

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Mixed Media: Books

Mixed Media: Books

Solved; Artemisia;Becoming Kim Jong-un; A Silent Fury

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The Puzzler

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch

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What if…

What if…

Drug patents were scrapped? Husna Rizvi makes a vital suggestion.

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Agony Uncle

Agony Uncle

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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Big Bad World

Big Bad World

Conspiracy... or logic, science and reason, by P J Polyp.

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Where we would have been: Fridays for Future activists leave placards outside the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, as an alternative climate protest. Photo: Kay Nietfeld/DPA/Alamy Live News

Temperature check

Aruna Chandrasekhar on how climate activism has kept going in a time of isolation.

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Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.

Hazel Healy and Mohamed Camara September, 2020 527 Preview
5 polluters making the pandemic pay

As Covid-19 spread across the world, greenhouse-gas emissions plummeted, thanks to a reduction in human activity. But meanwhile, writes Amy Hall, some of the world’s most polluting companies and industries have been using the pandemic to maintain and even ramp up their environmentally ruinous activities.

Amy Hall September, 2020 527 Preview
Green and just

How to finance a Green New Deal that is truly global? Fadhel Kaboub has a proposal that builds in colonial and climate reparations.

Fadhel Kaboub September, 2020 527 Preview
Beyond borders

Can we rescue the notion of global health from the jaws of the pandemic? asks Dinyar Godrej.

Dinyar Godrej September, 2020 527 Preview
Action and Information

Covid-19 related research and advocacy groups to support.

September, 2020 527 Preview
Lessons from the pandemic

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

Vanessa Baird September, 2020 527 Preview
Spotlight: James Aguer Garang

James Aguer Garang talks to Jan-Peter Westad about art, trauma and healing.

Jan-Peter Westad July, 2020 526 Preview
Mixed Media: Music

De-formation: Piano Variations; From Isolation 3

July, 2020 526 Preview
Mixed Media: Film

The Uncertain Kingdom; The Australian Dream; The Happy Family; Bicycle Thieves

July, 2020 526 Preview
Mixed Media: Books

Solved; Artemisia;Becoming Kim Jong-un; A Silent Fury

July, 2020 526 Preview
The Puzzler

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch

July, 2020 526 Preview
What if…

Drug patents were scrapped? Husna Rizvi makes a vital suggestion.

Husna Rizvi July, 2020 526 Preview
Agony Uncle

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

Agony Uncle July, 2020 526 Preview
Big Bad World

Conspiracy... or logic, science and reason, by P J Polyp.

July, 2020 526 Preview
Temperature check

Aruna Chandrasekhar on how climate activism has kept going in a time of isolation.

Aruna Chandrasekhar July, 2020 526 Preview